Johnson v. Fontana County Fire Protection District

This is an appeal from a judgment denying petitioner’s application for a writ of mandamus. The proceeding was instituted for the purpose of compelling the payment of a judgment which the petitioner theretofore had recovered against the Fontana County Fire Protection District, and against one George Calkins, asserted to be the agent or employee of the district.

A hearing was granted by this court after decision by the District Court of Appeal, on rehearing, -in which that court upheld the judgment of the trial court denying issuance of a peremptory writ upon the ground that the peremptory writ,…